CSCI A348/548 Homework Assignment One Fall 2000

Due date

September 14, 11:59pm.

Late policy

To be announced. Please try to make the due date.

Work policy

Working in groups is encouraged but please turn in your own version of the assignment.

Task

Described in detail below.

Grading

Feedback will be provided within a week, grades will be posted on-line.

Graduate standing

There's an extra-credit part to the assignment that has to be turned in for graduate credit.

Here's what your first assignment consists of:

• Setup your web server, make it restart automatically (if needed) every morning at 6pm.

• Post your picture on the server's home page.

• Add a link to the server's home page to another file on your server. This file should offer a little background on you.

• Create the players directory structure as detailed in the first lab. Archive and compress it, and make it readable by everyone. Make sure you write your own text in the text files.

• Write the following three Perl programs:
  • sum that produces the sum of its command line arguments

  • query that reads a file of usernames and passwords and then maintains a dialogue with the user accepting usernames and retrieving passwords

  • process that reads a text file and prints a processed version of it, with every uppercase vowel turned into lowercase and every lowercase vowel turned into uppercase.

• Describe what changes you'd have to make if you decided to install the Apache web server in a sub-directory of your choice in your home directory on burrowww.